Devotionals for September 5, 2022
Hope you enjoy Labor Day, TNLC Fam! :)
READ
John 15:9-17 NLT
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
John 15:9-10 NLT
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
John 15:9-10 NLT
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
REFLECT
This week, we will read John 15:9-17 each day. And then look at a single section of verses to meditate on.
In this series, we’re going to dive deep into how the people of God are called to love, and how they are called to LIVE out that LOVE.
Love can easily be called the supreme ethic and central theme of all of Christianity. Some might say of life itself. But, what is love? If we’re going to say how valuable, how central, and how defining love is for our faith, our lives, and our existence, we should get on the same page and have some clarity and not just feel on the definition of love.
In this series, we’re going to dive deep into how the people of God are called to love, and how they are called to LIVE out that LOVE.
Love can easily be called the supreme ethic and central theme of all of Christianity. Some might say of life itself. But, what is love? If we’re going to say how valuable, how central, and how defining love is for our faith, our lives, and our existence, we should get on the same page and have some clarity and not just feel on the definition of love.
APPLY
Q: In reading these verses, what feelings does the word, Love, evoke?
Q: “Remain in my love” is a command. How do these verses tell us to obey this commandment?
Q: How do your friends, family, co-workers, etc, define love? How many working definitions of the word do you experience in your world?
Q: “Remain in my love” is a command. How do these verses tell us to obey this commandment?
Q: How do your friends, family, co-workers, etc, define love? How many working definitions of the word do you experience in your world?
SING
PRAY
"Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy."
Father. May your name forever be on our lips. That all we say and do brings you glory and honor and help us to say and fight for the things that are holy and right because you are holy are right. Amen.
Father. May your name forever be on our lips. That all we say and do brings you glory and honor and help us to say and fight for the things that are holy and right because you are holy are right. Amen.